Audrey Hepburn
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.Collection: Men
Happy girls are always the prettiestCollection: Girl
The most important job in life is being a mom.Collection: Mom
As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.Collection: Wrinkles
Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.Collection: Heart
Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.Collection: Past
Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.Collection: Children
Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.Collection: Inspiring
...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?Collection: Children
Is there anything more important than a child?Collection: Children
How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.Collection: Mother
I love people who make me laugh!Collection: Laughter
Living is like tearing through a museum.Collection: Museums
A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.Collection: Beautiful
I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.Collection: Appreciate
Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closetsCollection: Dream
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation.Collection: Hands
All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of choc'late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin' lots of heat. Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still! I would never budge 'til spring crept over my window sill. Someone's head restin' on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be, who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.Collection: Spring
I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.Collection: Change
To be beautiful lips - say kind words. To my eyes were beautiful - radiate good. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes, not in its shape or hairstyle. Beauty woman in her eyes, because the eyes - is the gateway to the heart, where love lives.Collection: Beautiful
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?Collection: Simple
For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. Collection: Party
If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.Collection: Blow
You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.Collection: Happy Life
Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.Collection: Beauty
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.Collection: People
A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.Collection: Country
Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.Collection: Night
My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.Collection: Children
My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.Collection: Courage
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.Collection: Reading
I believe in miracles.Collection: Believe
Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?Collection: Children
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.Collection: Children
People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'Collection: Beautiful
Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.Collection: Children
I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.Collection: Queens
The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.Collection: Moon
Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.Collection: Children
I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.Collection: Thinking
It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.Collection: Receiving Love
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.Collection: Believe
Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.Collection: Moving
I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.Collection: Building Up
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.Collection: Compassion
What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.Collection: Opportunity
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.Collection: Beautiful
When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.Collection: Loneliness
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.Collection: Children